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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 16:43:23 -0400
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From: Errol Neal <errol.neal@enhtech.com>
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Subject: [users@httpd] Logging HTTP Posts

Hi all,


I have a client that is complaining about the length of time it takes to 
post large
files to their php based web application hosted an dedicated apache  server 
running
Apache 1.3.26. I am trying to isolate the bottleneck and I would
like to configure apache to log all http posts to a separate log file with 
the size
of the post, file name, the time the post initiated and the time it completed.
I wanted to know if this was possible by using the Log Format directive in 
this manner:

Log Format "%h %l \"%r\" %>s %b %f %T \"%{User-agent}i\"" http-post-only

And also by using the SetEnv directives like so:

SetEnv Request_Method  Post getpost
CustomLog logs/access_log_postonly http-post-only env=getpost

Would anybody like to give me any input? The apache docs say that the "%b" 
in the Log
Format directive will log the "bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers". I would 
assume that in the
case of the GET method this is from the server to the client, however in 
the caseof the
POST method, is this the data sent from the client to the server? Also, the 
"%f".
Will that capture the name of the file being posted/uploaded? And what of 
the "%T". Will that
log the time it took for the post to be complete?

Again, I would sincerely appreciate any input from you guys (and gals) and 
thanks in advance
for your help, time and patience.


Best Regards,


Errol Neal


Errol Neal, Systems/Network Administrator
eneal@enhtech.com
Enhanced Technologies Inc.
http://www.enhtech.com
703-924-0301 or 800-368-3249
703-924-0302 Fax


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